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Monday Miscellany

A new week is approaching! Here are some interesting IP events to keep you entertained this week.

Looking at all the IP events!

Conferences

It is with
regret that MARQUES has decided to cancel the 34th Annual Conference, due to be
held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 22 to 25 September 2020. The 2021 Annual
Conference will be held in The Hague, The Netherlands, from 14 to 17 September.
More information is available here.

Courses

CEIPI is
pleased to announce the 3rd edition of the Advanced Training Program on
“Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property”. The training will take
place in Strasbourg from 1 to 3 October 2020. More information is available here.

Webinars

Join Simmons
and Simmons for the grand finale in the Retromark: Live! The Retromark: Live!
series will take a look into the future of IP life with co-hosts Darren Meale
and Rosie Burbidge joined by Allan James, the UK IPO’s Senior Hearing Officer. More
information is available here.

The
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP) has been giving
free access to a series of round-ups covering the most important decisions in
different fields and at different levels during 2019, and is now proud and delighted
to host a series of live webinars to discuss the most important, recent IP
developments!

- - More information on the “IP enforcement Round
Up – Live Webinar” is available here.

- - More information on the “US Patent Round Up -
Live Webinar” is available here.

- - More information on the “Germany and China
Patent Round-Up - Live Webinar” is available here.

Other

One of the biggest winners of the current
pandemic seems to be the former Silicon Valley startup Zoom. The company’s
success can be attributed to a number of factors – arguably including its
software’s highly popular virtual-background feature. The virtual-background feature
includes, inter alia, iconic stills from movie sets. This give rise to whether
use of these virtual-backgrounds may constitute an infringement of copyright. Read more here.

SpicyIP is
proud to announce the first edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on
Intellectual Property Law. For its first edition, the competition will be open
to students currently enrolled in any LLB program (or its equivalent – meaning
students enrolled in J.D. programs can take part) across the world. More
information is available here.

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